Israel hanged Mossad detective Elli Cohen’s collection after 60 years from Syria

Israel announced on Sunday that it brought back the official Syrian collection on Israeli Spiel Cohen, including around 2,500 documents, photos and individual items. Cohen was killed in Damascus in 1965. “In a complex secret operation by Mosad, in collaboration with a strategic partner service, the official Syrian collection on Elli Cohen was brought to Israel,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.The Israeli PM’s office said in a statement, “Troves include thousands of items, which were placed under tight security by Syrian intelligence for decades.” The announcement was made on May 18, 1965 during a 60 -year ceremony since the public execution of Cohen. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mosad Director David Barnia reported to Cohen’s widow, Nadia Cohen, The Times of Israel.Describing the operation as a “historic” achievement, the Israeli’s Prime Minister’s Office created a full Syrian intelligence collection on thousands of recovered objects on Elli Cohen, which describes the operation as a “historic” achievement. The Gupta Mission was done with the help of a foreign intelligence agency, as mentioned in the statement. The collection includes cohaen’s handwritten letters for his family, documents showing communication between him and Syrian officials, his time in Syria and forged passports. At the same time, the individual items recovered such as Damascus had keys from their apartments, who were taken by the Syrian intelligence when arrested.

The original desire of Cohen was written shortly before the execution was written, among the recovered items.In addition, there were many handwritten notes included in the collection that were collected from the residence of Cohen by the Syrian intelligence, outlining the assignments obtained from Mossad. These included instructions to inspect specific persons and gather intelligence on Syrian military facilities in the field of Kunthra. The original documents that sentenced Kohen to death and a letter in Damascus also returned to the Jewish community chief Rabbi Nisim Andbo to live with Cohen in their last hours. Cohen had strong relations with senior political and military figures in Syria during a four -year intelligence mission before Syrian officials discovered. He was publicly executed in Damascus on 18 May 1965. Ellie Cohen’s life was depicted in Netflix Minisaries detectiveBritish actor Sacha Baron Cohen played the lead role.